State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Harris

This is an original proceeding in prohibition to prevent a circuit judge of Jackson County from compelling relator railroad to answer certain interrogatories. The interrogatories were propounded in a suit for personal injuries brought by Clifford Cooper against the railroad. The injuries were caused when Cooper ran Ms automobile into a freight train which was blocking a road crossing.

After a pretrial conference Cooper submitted interrogatories for the railroad to answer. The railroad objected to three of them. The objections were overruled. The railroad then filed an answer in which it…